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Slice of life

13 July, 2012 | By Astragal

At the wrap party for the London Festival of Architecture, held in Carmody Groarke’s Filling Station, Kevin Carmody was overheard bemoaning the choice of furniture – and rightly so, as the orange and green picnic tables were a rotten fit.

Less predictably, Carmody also railed against the pizza oven behind the bar, which was already staining the white-painted canopy black, giving the petrol station-turned-bar a rather authentic patina.

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